ROY HODGSON believes England can take inspiration from Chelsea’s Champions League triumph and that they can win the World Cup in Brazil in 2014.

He also welcomed suggestions that England should take spot-kicks after friendlies next year to prepare players for the real thing.

England have won just one of their seven shoot-outs at major tournaments and Hodgson said: “It would be a good idea. You might be able to agree with our opponents that if the game ends in a draw let’s have a penalty shoot-out.”

He also believes his team can take a leaf out of Chelsea’s book after their remarkable win over Barcelona. Hodgson said: “You could say we are far from being favourites for the World Cup, so winning it is not a likelihood. But you’ve got to shy away from ‘impossible’ in football.

That was by beating Barcelona and Bayern Munich, two of the best teams in Europe along the way

Roy Hodgson

“There are plenty of events that we could point to that you could have said were impossible, but people have done it. It wasn’t likely that Chelsea would become champions of Europe, especially having to change their manager in mid-stream – but they did.

“That was by beating Barcelona and Bayern Munich, two of the best teams in Europe along the way. I’d like to keep that dream alive.”

Hodgson is adamant England have enough world-class players to challenge any side they come up against in 2014 if they get there.

He said: “I hope I will never be tripped into saying we don’t have enough players or there’s not players good enough to play for England because that would be a very sad indictment. There are a lot of foreigners in the league, but there’s plenty of English players.”

England lie second in their qualifying group, two points behind Montenegro after four games.